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Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He’s continually working out His ultimate perfection for you…
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
This total surrender to ‘the love of Christ’ is the only thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it will always leave the mark of God’s holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your personal holiness.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
…let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
We act like pagans in a crisis–only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Never ask another person’s advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don’t fill it with busyness, just wait.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone…Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
…never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God’s timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, “. . . who will go for Us?” The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not “a little bit of love, ” but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose–to proclaim the gospel of God.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
He comes where He commands us to leave.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
The Lord’s questions always reveal the true me to myself.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket–to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted–not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Jesus doesn’t bring anything up from the wells of human nature–He brings them down from above.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
It is one thing to follow God’s way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a ‘doormat’ under other people’s feet.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Remember whose you are and whom you serve.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God’s children starving while actually seated at the Father’s table.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Be careful that you don’t become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood–darkness is the time to listen.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
God’s friendship is with people who know their poverty.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
… God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Dec. 31… “Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
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